Pangborn Design Ltd

At the heart of Pangborn Design is founder Dominic Pangborn. Born in Korea in 1952, Pangborn immigrated to Jackson, Michigan at the age of 10. After graduating from high school, he studied at the highly prestigious Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, an elite institution that also trained the likes of Walt Disney and other luminaries. In 1978, Pangborn moved to Detroit and a year later opened Pangborn Design.

The firm soon began attracting a diverse clientele that included start-up businesses as well as Fortune 500 companies such as Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Kmart Corporation and Wolverine World Wide, to name a few. Since 1979, the Detroit-based design studio has designed everything from corporate identities and annual reports to websites, baby bottles to designer neckwear, women's scarves, shirts and dinnerware collections. Although graphic design is still the crux of the company, the firm now also specializes in consulting, marketing, e-communications, merchandising, licensing and product and package design.

Despite the intense workload, Pangborn regularly contributes to many worthy organizations. Aside from sitting on several charitable boards, he hosts bimonthly gallery shows that benefit local organizations like the Children's Center of Michigan and Detroit Public Television. He also created Wellnesswear, a line of upscale accessories, which benefit people living with HIV/AIDS.

Dominic Pangborn designed all five conference rooms of the 400-seat World Bridge, Foreign Language Technology Center on the Detroit campus of Wayne State University, including the German Bridge Conference Center.

If you're traveling through Detroit's new Wayne County Metropolitan Airport, visit Pangborn Design's shop next to the granite fountain. Pangborn Design website

 

German Bridge - die neue Brücke, was developed by
Prof. Mark Ferguson,
who also designed and maintains the German Bridge website.

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